Turn-taking skills in mammals: A systematic review into development and acquisition

F Abreu, S Pika - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
How human language evolved remains one of the most intriguing questions in science, and
different approaches have been used to tackle this question. A recent hypothesis, the …

Cultural transmission from the last common ancestor to the Levallois reducers: What can we infer?

SJ Lycett - 2019‏ - psycnet.apa.org
This chapter deliberately focuses on the evidence for social learning capacities over the
course of human evolution. However, we must also, of course, tie inferences about social …

Foraging activity and food selection in Asiatic black bear orphaned cubs in absence of social learning from a mother

L Pokrovskaya - Mammalian Biology, 2015‏ - Springer
In different groups of mammals the role of social learning in ontogeny of foraging behaviour
is variable. Normally developed foraging skills are necessary for the survival of orphaned …

The 'culture of two': Communication accommodation in ravens' (Corvus corax) nonvocal signaling

EM Luef, A Ter Maat, M Jäger… - Journal of Language …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
The theory of communication accommodation refers to linguistic processes through which
human interactants—consciously or subconsciously—shift their speech and gesture styles to …

A Comparative Evolutionary Approach to the Origins and Evolution of Cognition and of Language

M Tamariz - The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Uniquely among animal communication systems, human language is simultaneously
symbolic, richly structured, socially learned, dynamically diverse, and capable of expressing …